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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR OARRARA, OF GOVERNOR LANE, GIBRALTAR.

APPARATUS FOR RECORDING FARES BY OMNIBUSES, 81.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,042, dated January20, 1891.

Application filed April 10, 1890, Serial No. 347,832. (No model.)Patented in England June 12, 1889, No. 9,720: in France March 5, 1890,No. 204,173, and in Belgium March 5,1890, N0.89,'724.

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Be it known that I, ARTHUR CARRARA, a citizen of England, residingatGovernorLane, Gibraltar, have invented a new and useful Apparatus forChecking the Fares of Passengers by an ()mnibus or other PublicConveyance, (for which I have obtained patents in Great Britain, datedJune 12, 1889, No. 9,720; in France, dated March 5, 1890, No. 20%,173,and in Belgium, dated March 5, 1890, No. 89,724,) of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide novel mechanism forautomatically recording the entrances and exits of passengers to andfrom an omnibus or other public conveyance in such manner that everytime a passenger enters the conveyance the fact is indicated by amarkeron one part of a moving sheet of paper, and every time a passengerleaves the conveyance another marker indicates the fact on another partof the moving sheet. To accomplish this object my invention involves thefeatures of construction, the combination or arrangement of devices, andthe principles of operation hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 of theaccompanying drawings is a plan of the rear end of an omnibus or carwith a turnstile for the entrance. and exit of passengers. Fig. 2 is acorresponding plan showing two turnstiles, the one for entrance and theother for exit. Fig. 3 is a part transverse section, and Fig. l is apart longitudinal section, showing means whereby the entrances and exitsof passengers serve to mark a card, the position of the card being setby hand. Figs. 5 and 6 are corresponding sections showing the movementof the paper effected by that of the vehicle itself.

Referring to Fig. LA is a turnstile having its arms extending over twosteps B for entrance and O for exit of passengers. The turnstile A beingprovided, as usual, with a ratchet and pawl, so that it can turn in onlyone direction, entering passengers must tread on the step B and leavingpassengers on the As shown in Fig. ihthere are two turnstiles A A,having their arms at differentlevels, so that they can revolve clear ofeach other. These can revolve only in the one direction, so thatpassengers must tread on the steps B and 0, according as they areentering or are leaving the vehicle.

\Vhen the vehicle is a public conveyance, such as an omnibus, having itsjourney divided into a number of courses, for each of which a fare ischarged, the arrangement for marking entrances and exits of passengersmay be such as is shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

B represents one of the two steps fixed on a shaft 1), inclosed in atubular shaft 0, to which the other step 0 is fixed, so that, accordingas the one step or the other is trod upon, the central shaft b or thetubular shaft 0 is partly turned on its axis to swing the lever 1),which is connected with the spring 0', Fig. i. The shaft Z) is connectedby levers Z) to an oscillating frame b and the tubular shaft 0 is inlike manner connected by lever c to a similar frame such lever 0 beingconnected with the spring C Fig. 5. Both these frames are alike inconstruction and operation, as I shall describe with reference to b Init is mounted a screw D, having at its end a ratchet-wheel (Z, engagedby a pawl d. The nut d which lits on the screw D, is guided by the lowerlimb of the frame 17 along which it can slide, and this nut carries apricker or punch, (indicated by (P, Figs. 4t and G.) In front of this isa card or sheet E for receiving the marks of the pricker or punch. Thecard or sheetE is fitted inavertically-sliding frame, which carries aratchetrack engaged by a pawl e on a lever c, pivoted at B and which canbe moved by an external handle 0, this lever 6 having also a marker atits lower end, as at 6 Fig. 3. The conductor or other official, when thevehicle reaches the end of one course and is beginning the next, bymeans of the handle c moves the lever 6, thus causing the sheetE to movevertically a distance equal to one tooth of its rack, the marker on c atthe same time making a mark on the middle of the sheet E. The sheet isadvanced by the free end of the upwardly-inclined pawl a, risingvertically when the handle 6 is so operated as to cause the lever e toswing in the direction of the vehicle, by treading on the step B, Figs.1 and 2, he moves the frame b toward the sheet E, and the punch orprickeron d 'makes a mark on the sheet E. When the step B is relieved 5from the tread, it is raised by a spring, and

the frame 1) makes its back-stroke. In making this back-stroke itsratchet-wheel d is partly turned by the pawl d, and the screw D, beingthus partly turned in its nut 61 IO causes the nut to move a littlehorizontally. If now a second passenger enters, the punch or pricker on(1 makes a second mark on E, but a little to the side of the formermark; Thus as passenger after passenger enters the I 5 vehicle markafter mark is made in a horizontal row in line with the mark made by themarker on the lever 6. Similarly the frame 0 is moved by passengersleaving the vehicle, and thus the sheet E receives two sets of marks,showing the passengers entering and leaving during each course.

Instead of moving the sheet E by hand, as.

above described, it may be moved by the vehicle itself, as I shalldescribe, referring to Figs. 5 and 6. In this case a cam F on the naveof one of the wheels of the vehicle once in every revolution moves alever F, which by means of a pawl and ratchet gives motion through atrain of gearing G to a paper roller g, which draws the paper sheet Efrom an upper roller in front of a pad 9. The

marking apparatus is similar to that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and itsparts are marked by similar letters of reference. In this case there 5may be a lever 6, moved by hand, to mark the courses, if desired; but asthe paper is caused to travel by the travel of the vehicle the marks onit representing the numbers of entering and leaving passengers servealso,

by their position on the paper, to'show the parts of the journey wherethe entrances and exits occur.

In order to avoid confusion of marks when a number of passengers enteror leave the 5 vehicle at the same time, the markers are made to have alittle transverse movement relatively to the paper, so that each mark isa little to one side of the preceding mark.

The paper being graduated by lines representing the distancecorresponding to the particular courses into which the journey isdivided, there is thus obtained a record of all the passengers thatenter and leave the vehicle and of the particular parts of the journeywhere these entrances and exits take place. Assuming that the journey isdivided into a number of courses not necessarily equal in length, buteach course subject to a predetermined fare, then, the paper beinggraduated atintervals proportional to these courses or being examined bya scale so graduated, it is easy to compute from the numbers andpositions of the marks on the paper the total fares that should havebeen collected during the journey. This may be done byadding togetherall the fares of those 1. The combination, with a "ehicle, of a yieldingstep,a shaft supporting the step and having a lever, a swinging frameactuated by the lever when the step is depressed, a

traveling marker carried by the swinging frame for marking or recordingon a sheet of paper, and means for feeding the paper, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination, with a vehicle having a yielding step, of a swingingframe actuated bythe movement of the step,a rotating screw mounted inthe swinging frame and carrying a nut having a marker to mark or recordon a sheet of paper, and means for feeding the paper, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination, with a vehicle having a yielding step, of a shaftsupporting the step and having a lever, a swinging frame c0nnected withthe lever and actuated thereby when the step is depressed, a rotatingscrew mounted in the swinging frame, a traveling nut engaged with thescrew and having a marker to mark or indicate on a sheet of paper, andmeans for feeding the paper, substantially as described. I

t. The combination, with a vehicle having yielding steps for theentrance and exit of passengers, of independent swinging framesconnected with and swung by the steps when depressed, a rotating screwmounted in each frame and carrying a traveling nut which is providedwith a marker to mark or record on a sheet of paper, and means forfeeding the paper, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with a vehicle having yielding steps for thecntrance'and exit of passengers, of independent swinging framesconnected with and swung by the steps when depressed, a rotating screwmounted in each frame and carrying a traveling nut having a marker tomark or record on a sheet of paper, a paper-roller, and mechanismactuated by a wheel of the vehicle for rotating the paperroller toautomatically feed the paper, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 19th day of March, A. D.1890.

s ARTHUR CARRARA.

Witnesses:

A. M. CAPURRO, J OSE RADA.

